Rev. Dr. Cecelia Williams Bryant – Trailblazing Global Minister Passes Away at 77
Dr. Cecelia Williams Bryant
Honoring a Legacy of Global Ministry, Advocacy, and Compassion
STONECREST, GA, UNITED STATES, September 27, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Bryant family announces the transition of Dr. Cecelia Williams Bryant—noted minister, author, organizer, feminist, and visionary global prophet.
Affectionately known as “Rev. C”, Dr. Bryant has served in ministry for over 40 years. Her work began in New England and spread throughout the United States, Canada, England, Netherlands, Israel, Jamaica, Bahamas, Bermuda, Guyana, Haiti and Nigeria. She established women's resource and development centers and schools for children in both the U.S. and Africa.
Dr. Bryant was an author, an intercessor and a lover of children worldwide. She is founder of primary schools in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dallas, Texas, Grand Bassa, Liberia and an orphanage in Mohotlong Lesotho; and the Cecelia Williams Bryant Center—an early childhood development center in Seattle, Washington, has been named in her honor.
She was a retired Senior Episcopal Supervisor in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and was married to Bishop John R. Bryant, retired senior bishop and presiding prelate of the Fourth Episcopal District of the AME Church for 55 years. They served many posts around the globe, including Bethel AME Church1 in Baltimore from 1975 to 1988. Over those years, Bethel grew to over several thousand members and served as an anchor in Baltimore’s faith community.
Along with Bishop Bryant, she is survived by their son, Dr. Jamal H. Bryant, founder of Empowerment Temple AME Church in Baltimore, and the current senior pastor of New Birth2 Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Georgia; their daughter, Dr. Thema Bryant, former president of the American Psychological Association and a tenured professor at Pepperdine University; seven grandchildren and a host of other family members.
The homegoing celebration is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 5, at Bethel AME Church located at 1300 Druid Hill Avenue, Baltimore, MD. The wake is scheduled for 10 a.m. and the funeral at 11 a.m.
Statement from Dr. Jamal-Harrison Bryant: We were blessed to share life with this anointed and dedicated wife, mother, grandmother and liberated global citizen. Of all her immense talents and gifts, Rev. C was a powerful and committed intercessor on behalf of the poor and vulnerable. I am not the person I am today without her prayers and love, which have been my north star throughout my life. If love alone were enough to sustain life, she would have lived forever but we trust God for His wisdom and praise Him for her life and her witness.
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1 http://bethel1.org/
2 https://newbirth.org/
